Why Japaneses copy everything?

[Maciamo]

Since the US has Disney land, and japan also have Disney land. Everyone knows Disney Land is originated from the US.

That is a serious misjudgement if you think it was the Japanese who insisted on having Disneyland in the first place. As you might know, Disney is an American company, and their aim is to make money. Japan was a good market for them, so the Americans opened a Disneyland in Tokyo, not the Japanese !

This remark is alos valid for Byp :

France has Euro Disney... nothing to it... no copy, just different..

Go have a look at all the things that were created in China, then we could say the West has copied it all!

Really, what ? Maybe a bunch of inventions like fireworks or noodles/pasta, but really not that much in comparison to what they borrowed from the West in the last 200 years.

 

[blessed]

disney-land originated from the US...
yeah, well so did mcdonalds, coca cola, ford and, the M16... as well as countless other monopolies. Its a bunch of multinational companies that... well, are multinational (maybe appart from the people that brought to you the M16). and disney, mind you, is a hell of a multinational; profit seeking; money grabbing company. so Japan's disney-land is nothing more than a way to own more George Washingtons. (and Japanese companies probably couldn't copy disney land in name, even if they wanted to, since there are probably about 10000 copyrights on it and its derivatives.)

 

[Maciamo]

actually eiffel is of german origin. his family's name was Bﾃｶnickhausen and they changed it to the name of the region were they had come from because the french couldn't pronounce it.

The Eiffel region stands between Germany and Belgium, so Eiffel is Belgian too ! And wasn't the grand-mother of the architect from Slovenia or something ? What about the workers who build. I am sure there were some foreigners among them ! Oh, that's going to be fun. Couldn't we just say it's one of the truly European piece of architecture (with a strong French connotation, as it was built in Paris, after all )

They want to be the best in everything. Isn't Tokyo Tower bigger than the Eiffel tower?!!

Yes, about 9m taller (333m vs 324m). But doing this just "to be the best" is really petty and can only bring contempt on the Japanese rather than admiration. Anybody can built yet another tower just a few meters higher, especially when they do it 69 years later like with Tokyo Tower . What is more, Tokyo tower is higher including the antenna, but the observation platform of the Eiffel tower is higher (276m vs 250m). Height is not the point of the structure anyway. The Eiffel tower is more considered as a piece of art, and on this respect Tokyo tower fails to surpass it.

 

[sky888]

there is a Japanese garden right beside the golden gate bridge -- They copy from Japan

Tom cruise did the samurai show -- copy the theme from Japan

There's the new US Car model which look exactly like the new toyota -- copy from Japan

Asian cities are known to be very impressed by Japanese pop culture

from the Pop stars to TV actors, TV shows to serials, from the artist dressing to the way they talk....

and these cities copied everything from Japanese

 

[Reiku]

Seven Samurai has alot of movies based off it's swordplay and cinematography (Star Wars being one)

Hmm, I always thought Star Wars was based off Hidden Fortress.

As for "Seven Samurai" that is one of the best examples of the U.S. ripping off Japan: The real title of that movie is "The Magnificeint Seven"--sound familliar? U.S. movie studios ripped of the plot and the title, and then changed the name of Akira Kurosawa's film when it was later imported to the U.S. to cover up their actions.

Personnally, I prefer Japan's copies of western art to western copies of Japanese art--because the Japanese usually improve what they copy. Of course I'm biased, but living in the U.S. nowadays it's hard not to be biased against the west.

 

[Glenn]

As for "Seven Samurai" that is one of the best examples of the U.S. ripping off Japan: The real title of that movie is "The Magnificeint Seven"--sound familliar? U.S. movie studios ripped of the plot and the title, and then changed the name of Akira Kurosawa's film when it was later imported to the U.S. to cover up their actions.

I thought that the Japanese title was 七人の侍, which would make the English version a direct translation. Kurosawa also drew from Shakespeare; his 乱 (Ran) was an interpretation of "King Lear."

 

[blessed]

guys (by this I refer to all valuable assets of the human race participating in this "chat")... honestly, who gives. Everyone has copied something from someone at some point in time. Not like its wrong. we are one race after all... might as well share. Gets us further along the track, faster.

 

[Reiku]

I agree that sharing is a good thing, blessed. (If I didn't I wouldn't use P2P software

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I just dislike it when someone tries to take credit for another person's accomplishments. Imitation is the best form of flattery, but you should always give due credit to your sources.

Personally, I don't mind if someone uses my ideas or artwork, it just means it's reaching a wider audience--but nobody likes having someone else take the credit for their work.

That's my opinion, anyway.

 

[siren]

Many painters of impressionnistes like Van Gogh imitate Japanese print. And all master of painters begin from imitateing past painters styles. Rubens imitate Renaissance's painters like Mickelangelio. Japanese imitate many things but they change it their own style. They imitate Kanji from China, but Japanese put it Hiragana together.So Japanese and Chinese are very different language. Japanese have cleverness and good senses to create own culture from different cultures.

 

[bossel]

the Korean alphabet

Don't want to revive an old discussion, since I have no time to delve deeper into this again. But I promised to give a reference, which I completely forgot. Today I have to give back the book, so I had to remember.

A quite convincing source (IMO) regarding the relationship of 'Phags-pa & Korean alphabets is Gari Ledyard's article "The International Linguistic Background of the Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People" in Kim-Renaud's The Korean Alphabet.

There are others who refute Ledyard's conclusions, but to me they seem to have an (somewhat nationalist) agenda, which I can't see in Ledyard.

 

[Nuala]

Everybody country copys from another. Seriously if that were true, and I was an anime fan who didn't like the japanese taking the disney land idea. I'd shot myself for being a hypocrite.
*cough*

 

[Shooter452]

Why do they copy things (and make them better)

I believe that the correct response is, why not?

If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door?

Who said that? Sounds righteous to me!

 

[lexico]

Since the US has Disney land, and japan also have Disney land. Everyone knows Disney Land is originated from the US.

in Tokyo, they have Tokyo Tower, abd they look similar with Eiffel Tower in France. They imitated from France.

A statue of Liberty comes from France, and the US has it.
But how come japan copied the same on?

Japan loves everything that is Western thing

That power of foot must have been a smart one...I don't know how he got banned...with one loony post, he made all of you run, didn't he?....some brilliant arguments there....anybody want to start over?

 

[kirei_na_me]

Um, he didn't just make one post, he made several, and they were all just making cheap shots at Japan. If you search all his posts, you will see that he was doing nothing more than just throwing around petty remarks. No need to sound condescending.

 

[lexico]

O, I meant up there, not in (the loony box) there.
I'm scared, are you going to ban me, too?
And it did turn out a good thread; some of the finest arguments from the members.